New books received this week

Dental care for the elderly [DVD]. Sydney : NSW Health, c1993.

This 16 minutes long DVD produced by NSW Health and the Westmead Special Needs Dentistry Clinic is one of their educational videos on how to give good oral care. It is one of the Clinic's key resources for special care in dentistry.







dentEssentials: high-yield NBDE part I review: board prep for first and second year dental students / Michael S. Manley (ed). 3rd ed. New York : Kaplan Medical, 2010.

With more than 80 illustrations, this book provides broad instruction across multiple disciplines in a thorough compendium of all dental matters. It is organised into three sections: general principles of basic science, organic systems, and dental anatomy.

New books received this week

Lingual orthodontics: a new approach using STb light lingual system & lingual straight wire / Giuseppe Scuzzo. New Malden : Quintessence, c2010.

This manual details the orthodontic solutions possible through the use of the STb light lingual system and its innovative variable-friction lingual bracket. Taking into consideration the recent developments within the industry and in laboratory procedure, the authors detail the latest improvements in the system, such as improved patient comfort, increased predictability of results, shortened treatment times, and decreased laboratory work.






Dental attendance patterns and oral health status / AC Ellershaw. Canberra: AIHW, 2011.

This publication explores the relationship between dental attendance patterns and oral health status. The findings are sourced from the 2004–2006 National Survey of Adult Oral Health (NSAOH). In this survey a random sample of Australian adults was interviewed by telephone to collect information on dental attendance patterns and self-reported oral health. An oral examination was then undertaken to collect information on tooth decay and gum disease.

New books received this week

Advanced operative dentistry: a practical approach. / David Ricketts (ed). Edinburgh: Elsevier, 2011.

This book places unique emphasis on the biological basis of effective treatment planning by describing the diagnosis, aetiology, risk assessment and preventive management of diseases and disorders and how these factors are integral to predictable long-term patient outcomes.






Dental health of indigenous children in the Northern Territory: findings from the Closing the Gap program. Canberra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2011.

The report provides information on the following aspects of dental services: amount and types of dental services provided, extent of follow-up care provided to children with dental referrals, and oral health status of children who received dental services.

New books received this week

Orthodontics : current principles and techniques / Lee W. Graber(ed). 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier/Mosby, c2012.

The 5th edition reflects today’s emerging techniques, including new information on esthetics, genetics, cone-beam and other three-dimensional technologies, and evidence-based treatment. Coverage of diagnosis and treatment ranges from basic to highly complex situations, all in a concise, extensively illustrated format.

Access full-text articles easier & faster

Pubget makes getting access to full-text documents easier and faster. Instead of search results requiring several clicks to view the papers through PubMed, with Pubget, the search results are the papers. Pubget allows you to save, manage and share papers. On campus you can open the PDFs straight away. Off campus you will need to login with your Unikey to get the full text.

To try Pubget for The University of Sydney, visit Pubget and set your institution to U of Sydney. After entering your affiliation, when you search for articles, Pubget will display the full text articles that Sydney University subscribes to right in the search results screen. If Sydney University doesn't subscribe to the full text you'll see the abstract, and in the full web version only, links to order it.

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New e-books

Essential epidemiology: an introduction for students and health professionals. / Penny Webb. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

The new edition of this popular textbook remains a clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for students in all areas of health. It gives students an understanding of the fundamental pinciples common to all areas of epidemiology.






An illustrated guide to infection control / Kathleen Motacki (et al). New York, NY : Springer, c2010.

This book covers basic infection control regimens, from hand washing and use of hand gels to complicated infection control needs with use of medical devices. Included are infection control for contagious infections, sterile techniques, nosocomial infections, respiratory treatments, pneumonias, blood born pathogens, medical waste disposal, spills, infection control in a community setting, and more.






Key issues in e-learning: research and practice. / Norbert Pachler. London: Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011.

This book offers education practitioners with little or no pedagogical grounding in the field of e-learning insights that will enable them to improve their professional practices in relation to the conceptualisation, design, implementation, assessment and evaluation of approaches to e-learning.

An amazing referencing tool

Griffith University created a very cool, easy to use online Referencing Tool with examples in the AGPS Harvard, APA, MLA, and Vancouver styles for a number of media types and heaps of different formats.

PubMed and beyond

They are many alternative interfaces to PubMed offering different search and retrieval methods currently not available within PubMed. This free article PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature looks at and reviews 28 web tools for searching the biomedical literature and compares them to PubMed and each other and has a website dedicated to tracking existing tools and future advances in the area of biomedical literature search tools. Not only does the article look at these 28 interfaces but it also looks at the recent changes to PubMed that were often influenced by these and other outside interfaces.